2022-12-29
51 分钟In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to the best-selling author of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" about finding the profound in the obvious.
Hey there, it's Steven Dubner, and I'd like to wish you happy holidays.
I really appreciate your listening to freakonomics radio all year long.
We have had a great time making it and also building out the Freakonomics radio network with new shows.
One of them is people I mostly admire.
It's an amazing interview show hosted by my Freakonomics friend and co author, Steve Levitt.
So today we wanted to play for you one of Levitt's very best interviews with Yuval know Harari, the author and historian best known for writing a brief history of humankind.
It is a book that has changed how millions of people think about history and themselves.
If you have read sapiens, the conversation you are about to hear will take you even deeper inside it.
And if you haven't, well, prepare yourself for a treat and perhaps to have your mind blown.
Steve Leavitt has gotten really good at having mind blowing conversations with scientists, philanthropists, healers, artists, trivia masters, you name it.
Again.
His podcast is called people I mostly admire, and I hope you will follow or subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app.
As always, thanks for listening.
My guest today is Yuval Noah Harari, author of the blockbuster book Sapiens, which tells the entire history of our species in under 450 pages.
Sapiens took the word by storm, selling over 23 million copies in 65 languages.
This is your story as a human being.
What does it mean to be human?
Welcome to people I mostly admire.
With Steve Levitt, Sapien's path to success was an extremely unlikely one.
At the time he wrote it, Harare was a completely unknown historian of the Middle Ages, lecturing at Hebrew University in Israel.